Improvement in breech-loading fire-arms



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BREECH-LOADING FIRE-ARM. No. 191,563.

Patented June'5, 1877.

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UNITED STATE-s PATENT OFFICE.

VICTOR BOV'Y, OF NEW YORK, N. Y..4

IMPRovMENT IN 'BRE-EcH-LoAnlNe FIRE-ARMS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. [9| ,563, dated June`5, 1877; application liled March 12, 1877.

To all. whom 'it may concern:

Beit knownthat I, VICTOR BOVY, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Shot-Gun, of

which the following is a specification:

In the accompan yin g drawing, Figure 1 represents a verticallongitudinal section of my improved shot-gun on line x w, Fig. 4. Figs. 2 and 3 are detail vertical transverse sections ofthe same, respectively, on lines y y and z z. Figc is a bottom view of the gun, showing the breech-piece in horizontal section on line g q, Fig. l, Fig. 5 is a detail vertical longitudinal section on line, 'r r, Fig. 2; Fig. 6, a top view of the detachable forestock. Fig. 7 -is a detailed view of the operating-lever.

Similar letters of reference. indicate correspondin g parts.

The object ofthis invention is to provide for Sportsmen and others an improved construction of breech-loading shot-gun, in which the barrels may be readily removed from the breech-picce-and the different parts ofthe mechanism be taken .apart and put together with great facility, without the use of screws,

and without requiring tools to disconnect orv replace the parts. The gun may be readily repaired and any injury ascertained.

The invention consists of a breech-loading shot-gun, operated by a lever that throws a bolt and locks thereby the hinged barrels to the breech-piece, pushing the center firingpins backward on releasingthe bolt. A fixed elbow-piece of the frame operates the extractor and serves in connection with a recessed lu g ot'- the barrels tovattach rinlythe detachable forestoek in position.

l.In the drawing, A represents .a single or double barrel of my improved shot-gun, B the breech-piece, and (l the detachable forestock.

The barrel or barrels A are hinged to the end of the frame by the front lag A,'being seated against a detachable cross-pin, a, and by being retained by the forestock G, andby a fixed elbow-piece, b, that is rmly secured into acorrespondin g socketrecess of the frame.

The barrels A are provided near the breech 'with asecond lug, Bf, back of the front lug A, which are both recessed for lthe entering of the double lock-bolt D that slides in suiti able guides of the frame of the breech-piece B, and is operated by the arm d of a cranklever, E, said arm entering arecess or support, d', of the bolt.

The lug B nearest the breech has a central slot, e, so as to pass over the atconnectingportion e of the double .bolt D, as shown in Figs. land 4, and admit thereby the passage of the recessed bolt parts through the recessed lugs, and thereby the rigid locking vof the barrels to the breech-piece. By swinging down the crank-lever and withdrawing the bolt, the barrels'are unlocked and allowed to swing down on the breechpiece for putting in the cartridges.

A spring, f, 4bearing on the rear end of bolt D, assists the throwing of the bolt and locking of the barrels.

The upward-projecting arm ot' the elbowpiece b forms contact with the longitudinal guide-rod of the extractor F, that is thrown back automatically by the elbow-pieee ou swinging the barrels into open position, so as to admit the easy withdrawal of the shells and the replacing of the same by new cartridges. The .extractor is pushed in again by its contact with the breech-piece on swinging down the barrels so as to resume its position in the recess at the breech end of the barrels.

The shaft of the crank-lever E is further provided with recesses and with cam-shaped portions g within said recesses, as shown in Figs. 5 and 7. These cams g bear on the lower part of sliding ring-pins g', that are drawn back of the face of the breech-piece by the swinging down of the crank-lever simultaneously with the withdrawal of the lockbolt, so that they are not in the way of swinging the barrels. The firing-pins g! slide in recesses of the breech-piece, and are thrown forward by the .action of thehammers which strike on rear-extendingA toppiins of the sam-e, while a second front pin with pointed end, about midway between 4the bottom part and the top pin,i`s thrown forward and strikes the cartridges at'the center, for discharging the same.

The forestock is locked to the barrels by a sliding and'spring-acted bolt, G, that enters n recessed bottom lug, G', of the barrel.

- The bolt G is withdrawn by a v.finger-piece l`at the end that projects downward, and admits the working of the bolt for detaching the forestock C. .The top part of forestock C is concaveil to fit to the under side of the barrel or barrels', and provided with a slotted metal plate into which the lug G enters, and above which the locking-bolt G is guided. The rear end of the forestock, at the connection with the rounded-ott' end of the frame B, is concaved to swing on the end of said frame, and connected to the lower arm of the iixed'elbowpiece b by a recess, b1, and to the top arm by a recess, b2, of the top plate, so as to be firmly seated at the end of the frame, the swinging motion of lthe barrels heilig controlled by the lock-bolt.

Every part of the operating mechanism may Ramses thus be readily inspected and repairedA in case of wear or injury, and thereby a shot-gun of simple, convenient, and effective construction obtained. g

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new, and'desire to secure by Letters Patentl. The combination of the lever and shaft E, having arm d and cams g, with the sliding double lock-bolt D having recess d', and with the sliding center firing-pinsg, for the pur pose of withdrawing simultaneously bolt and tiring-pins for swinging barrels into open position, substantially as and for the purpose specified. l

2. The combination of the fixed elbow-piece b at end of breech-piece with barrels A having recessed lug G', and with detachable forestock G having rear recesses bl b2, for the purpose described.

' VICTOR BOVY. Witnesses:

PAUL GOEPEL, C. SEDGWICK. 

